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The Project Gutenberg eBook, Our Lady Saint Mary, by J. G. H. Barry This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: Our Lady Saint Mary Author: J. G. H. Barry Release Date: June 15, 2004 [eBook #12624] Language: English Character set encoding: US-ASCII ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK OUR LADY SAINT MARY*** E-text prepared by Juliet Sutherland, Charlie Kirschner, and the Project Gutenbereg Online Distributed Proofreading Team OUR LADY SAINT MARY BY J. G. H. BARRY, D.D. 1922 Would that it might happen to me that I should be called a fool by the unbelieving, in that I have believed such things as these. --Origen. TO THE MEMBERS OF THE LEAGUE OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN THIS VOLUME IS HOPEFULLY DEDICATED PREFACE The two papers in Part I have been published in the American Church Magazine. Of Part II Chapter 1 has been published separately; Chapters 2, 4, 7, 9 and 12 have been published in the Holy Cross Magazine. The rest of the volume is here published for the first time. I would emphasise the fact that the contents of Part II is a series of sermons which were prepared as such, and were preached in the Church of S. Mary the Virgin, New York City, for the most part in the Winter of 1921-22. In preparing them for publication in this volume no attempt has been made to alter their sermon character. It is not a theological treatise on the Blessed Virgin that I have attempted, but a devotional presentation of her life. I have added to the text as originally prepared certain prayers and poems. The object of the selection of the prayers, almost exclusively from the Liturgies of the Catholic Church, is to illustrate the prevalence of the address of devotion to our Lady throughout Christendom. The poems are selected with much the same thought, and have been mostly gathered from mediaeval sources, and so far as possible, from British. I have no special knowledge of devotional poetry, but have selected such poems as I have from time to time copied into my note books. This fact has made it impossible for me to give credit for them to the extent that I should have liked. I trust that any one who is entitled to
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